Tiffin, Ohio's AdvertiserTribune:
Billionaire investor Carl Icahn is backing a startup company that would build trains to run on President Barack Obama's high-speed rail network, challenging international manufacturers that dominate the market, the company said Thursday.
Icahn's American Railcar Industries Inc. has formed a joint venture with US Railcar LLC, a Columbus-based company that aims to re-establish passenger train manufacturing in the United States.....
....While US Railcar would begin production in Arkansas, it continues to explore building a factory in suburban Columbus, said Barry Fromm, CEO of Columbus-based Value Recovery Group, whose investors are behind the new rail company. Talks with the Ohio Department of Development are ongoing, he said....
We need to hope that Gov. Strickland, Mr. Icahn, Mr. Fromm, and other investors make some progress on getting this project moving. Come on, Mr. Icahn and Mr. Fromm!!! Thousands of Ohioans are wishing and hoping that you'll bring that rail car factory here to Ohio!!!!
*** Somewhere in Ohio, Kevin DeWine, head honcho of the Ohio GOP, has a major headache.
DaytonDailyNews:
State Rep. Seth Morgan won the endorsement of the Greene County Republican Party on Thursday, Feb. 18, with 60 percent of the vote.
The Greene County party voted the opposite of the Ohio Republican Party which is backing Delaware County Prosecutor Dave Yost....
The battle inside the Ohio Republican Party continues. How far to the right will the Ohio GOP go?